Research Blog : U.S. government, U. S. Government, hiringhttp://evpl.org/community/blogs/research/archive/tags/U.S.+government/U.+S.+Government/hiring/default.aspxTags: U.S. government, U. S. Government, hiringenCommunityServer 2008 SP1 (Build: 30619.63)Would you like to work for the federal government?http://evpl.org/community/blogs/research/archive/2009/08/25/would-you-like-to-work-for-the-federal-government.aspxTue, 25 Aug 2009 17:04:00 GMT9a7b961d-7882-4302-b701-732ca0e566f2:1797SuDocQueen@evpl0http://evpl.org/community/blogs/research/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1797http://evpl.org/community/blogs/research/archive/2009/08/25/would-you-like-to-work-for-the-federal-government.aspx#comments<p>If so, take a look at <a href="http://www.usajobs.gov/">www.usajobs.gov</a>.</p>
<p>This is a great resource for people interested in working for our federal government.&nbsp; On their main page this morning they showed 33,530 jobs available worldwide with the United States government.&nbsp; Now before your jaw hits the floor and you start drooling on your keyboard, let&#39;s do a reality check and remember that none of us are qualified for all 33,000 jobs.&nbsp; They&#39;re sure not going to hire me as a NASA engineer.&nbsp; And, I don&#39;t think I want to fill a librarian position in Timbuktu - okay, when I did a search for librarian positions, I didn&#39;t see any in Timbuktu, but you get the picture. :-)</p>
<p>The search was easy as pie.&nbsp; I just typed librarian into the search box right under &quot;Search Jobs&quot; on the main page and hit &quot;Run Search.&quot; &nbsp;14 positions popped up.&nbsp; With the exception of a couple all were positions looking for actual librarians, and even the two that weren&#39;t were for positions with the Library of Congress.&nbsp; For example, one was for a General Engineer working out of the Office of the Librarian; maybe a position similar to EVPL&#39;s building manager?</p>
<p>That was the simplest search.&nbsp; You can customize your search by clicking on the &quot;Search Jobs&quot; tab on the main page.&nbsp; From there, you can narrow your search by choices like agency, occupation, and location, to name a few.</p>
<p>Say you&#39;d like a job with the government, but you don&#39;t know what job you&#39;d enjoy.&nbsp; They have an area to help you with that as well.&nbsp; I couldn&#39;t find a direct link from the main page, but I saw links to it from the Search page and the Information Center page.&nbsp; Once you&#39;re on either page, look for the Career Interest Center and click on the &quot;learn more.&quot;&nbsp; From <a href="http://career.usajobs.gov/">there</a> you&#39;ll find a list of subjects that lead to interactive questionnaires that will help you figure out what job would be right for you.</p>
<p>What else?&nbsp; Too much to go over everything in what&#39;s supposed to be a &quot;short&quot; blog.&nbsp;:-)&nbsp; But, two last things I&#39;ve got to mention before I go.&nbsp; Be sure to check out the &quot;My USAJOBS&quot; tab.&nbsp; You&#39;ll be able to create your own account which will allow you to post your resume (I thought I read somewhere on the site you could post even more than one), apply for the jobs online, and receive email updates tailored to jobs that you&#39;re interested in. </p>
<p>And the other &quot;thing,&quot; be sure to play around with the &quot;Information Center&quot; page.&nbsp; Among the many services it offers, it provides help in understanding the convoluted federal hiring process.&nbsp; You can get help creating your resume.&nbsp; There&#39;s also an area where you can find out about the top agencies hiring, the most popular jobs, the areas in the country looking for the most jobs, etc.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://evpl.org/community/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1797" width="1" height="1">governmentOnline resourcesCareersuseful web sitesjobshiringemploymentwebsitesU. S. Governmentworkfederal governmentU.S. governmentUnited States Government